How do you use Pillar of the Caged God?

I bought it thinking it would work like facebreakers and would scale up all my added physical damage from other equipment, but that doesn't seem to really work. Is there a way to use this unique that is actually viable?

Right now my leap slam build goes from 6000 dps down to 1500 when I equip it :(

I have 600STR as a level45 character just to try out this build. Disappointingly, this does less DPS than a Geofri's. From calculations, with the max damage of 38 at 20% quality, with 1000 STR it will only do ~300 damage only. This is also intended I believe. But I read in another thread that they are changing the melee calculation method so this item will be better (hopefully).

The best way for this staff is a mixed atk speed/WEleDMG build, while u also convert all phy damage to elemental. The idea is to scale elemental damage as much as possible and combine it with huge atk speed + (multistrike) + Ele Auras -> Cyclone/EH/Sweep.

As noted the phy increase only works with the base damage, so aiming for atk speed is better, while u than also need to go the elemental route. So i would try to aim for a EH/Cyclone/Sweep build with lots of atk speed and added ele damage via items, than also try to convert all phy to elemental damage.

The challenge is to find a build that includes many WEleDMG nodes, while reaching major atk speed/dex/str clusters and somehow squeeze in HP/ES nodes...